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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, KY

May 19, 2022Clay County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2022, 4:00 AM EDT for Clay County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2022, 4:00 AM EDT (08:00 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2022, 4:30 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 40

County Clay County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 273 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1888 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 19, 3:50 AM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 3:50 AM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 11:04 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 19, 1:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 1:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 2:37 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 2:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 2:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 4:00 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski	29 min
May 18, 8:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	28 min
May 18, 8:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Lee, Powell	23 min
May 18, 8:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, Pulaski, Whitley	34 min
May 18, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	45 min
May 18, 8:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	23 min
May 18, 8:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle	7 hr
May 18, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	31 min
May 18, 9:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Knox, Whitley	26 min
May 18, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley	30 min
May 18, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	30 min
May 18, 10:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	35 min
May 18, 10:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	33 min
May 18, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	31 min
May 18, 10:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	27 min
May 18, 10:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	34 min
May 18, 11:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay	24 min
May 18, 11:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	37 min
May 18, 11:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay, Leslie	29 min
May 18, 11:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox	33 min
May 19, 12:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	43 min
May 19, 12:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	37 min
May 19, 12:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	23 min
May 19, 12:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox, Whitley	31 min
May 19, 1:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	31 min
May 19, 1:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox	30 min
May 19, 1:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knox, Whitley	3 hr
May 19, 1:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski	30 min
May 19, 1:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Knox	32 min
May 19, 2:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	23 min
May 19, 2:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	20 min
May 19, 2:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Harlan	35 min
May 19, 3:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	32 min
May 19, 4:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Harlan	28 min
May 19, 4:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox	21 min
May 19, 4:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Leslie	24 min
May 19, 5:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Leslie	24 min
May 19, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski	28 min
May 19, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley	49 min
May 19, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	32 min
May 19, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox	30 min
May 19, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	35 min
May 19, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Rockcastle	34 min
May 19, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Lee, Owsley	30 min
May 19, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley	37 min
May 19, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley	40 min
May 19, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Lee, Owsley	51 min
May 19, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	32 min
May 19, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Knox	32 min
May 19, 5:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan	27 min
May 19, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher	26 min
May 19, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee, Menifee, Powell, Wolfe	25 min
May 19, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry	23 min
May 19, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Wolfe	23 min
May 19, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee, Menifee, Powell, Wolfe	21 min
May 19, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	32 min
May 19, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry	31 min
May 19, 5:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan	3 hr
May 19, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath	27 min
May 19, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	25 min
May 19, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knott, Perry	36 min
May 19, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	26 min
May 19, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Lee, Owsley	27 min
May 19, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Wolfe	35 min
May 19, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	29 min
May 19, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Morgan, Owsley, Wolfe	37 min
May 19, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Knott, Magoffin	37 min
May 19, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	34 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.